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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Nov 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Mech Behav Biomed Mater. 2016 Apr 13;61:499–510. doi: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.04.012

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Flowchart of numerical algorithm, showing how the prestrain gradient is found iteratively by solving a series of forward FE problems. In the forward FE model, the prestrain gradient is held constant. After each forward analysis, the prestrain gradient is updated.